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Nixon's Chief Counsel Charles Colsonwho served prison time for his actions in the Nixon White House, said Felt had violated "his oath to keep this nation's secrets". Butterfieldthe White House aide best known for revealing Nixon's taping system, told the Hartford Courant in"I think it was a guy named Mark Felt. Nixon instead appointed William Ruckelshaus as Acting Director. Woodward struck up a conversation, eventually learning of Felt's position in the upper echelon of the FBI. Inshe committed suicide using Felt's revolver. Hoover died in his sleep and was found on the morning of May 2, Ruckelshaus, who had served only as Acting Director, was replaced several weeks later by Clarence M.

After Hoover's death, Felt became angry and disgusted when L.

How ‘Deep Throat’ Took Down Nixon From Inside the FBI

Felt was instrumental in their revelations of the Nixon presidential administration's campaign of spying and sabotage against its political adversaries. The reporters wrote that Deep Throat was "perhaps the only person in government in a position to possibly understand the whole scheme and not be a potential conspirator himself. Since he [Hoover] had never been transferred and did not have a family, he had no idea of the financial and personal hardship involved. Nixon ordered Cox fired but eventually surrendered some of the tapes. Kleindienst told me, "Pat, I love you for that.